Product Description

Like many other characters in Scripture, the prophet Habakkuk word for ’embrace’ and conveys the idea of a wrestler in an embrace with his opponent. As Walter Chantry shows in this absorbing book, Habakkuk lived out his name by wrestling with God in prayer in the midst of a national and international situation resembling our own in many respects. As we read his prophecy, we hear Habakkuk pray, then listen as the Almighty responds. The divine response at first seems overwhelming. Yet at its centre is a glorious revelation of the very heart of the gospel. In this brief exposition, previously published in theBanner of Truth magazine, Chantry draws out themes that are timely, challenging, but ultimately full of comfort.

Table of Contents:

A Prophet’s Burden (1:1-4)

Divine Instruments of Justice (1:5-11)

Great Prayers in Devastating Times (1:12-2:1)

A Revelation for All Time (2:2-4)

God’s Great Purposes of History (2:15-17)

The Ultimate Ridicule of the Proud (2:18-20)

Habakkuk’s Third Prayer (3:1-19)

Spectators of Divine Majesty (3:3-16)

Habakkuk: A Book for Times of Extreme Crisis (3:17-19)

Appendix: Calvin on Quietness in Adversity

Author

Walt Chantry was born in 1938 in Norristown, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Dickinson College in 1960 with a B.A. in History, and went on to receive a B.D. from Westminster Theological Seminary in 1963. That same year he was called to be pastor of Grace Baptist Church in Carlisle, Pennsylvania where he served for the next 39 years. Soon after his retirement in 2002 he was asked to be the editor ofThe Banner of Truthmagazine and continued in this ministry for seven years.